The Book of Lost Things [Paperback]

'The book's epic villainy, mournful tone and tested morality is the essence of Connolly.  Worst of all is the Crooked Man, who ranks with the Travelling Man, the Collector and even Mr Pudd among Connolly's most memorable villains. 'THE BOOK OF LOST THINGS is peculiar and perverse and humane, with an incredibly lyrical finale . . . The novel should earn the author new readers.'

(The Irish Times )

'Brilliantly creepy coming of age novel'

(Mirror )

'A powerful, powerful writer. I got a very real chill down my spine. This is an amazing book.'

(Jeffery Deaver )

 'Charming, disturbing and outrageously imaginative. A tremendously exciting change of pace.'

(Lawrence Jackson, Producer of BBC Radio 4's adaptations of John Connolly's short stories )

'The book is beautifully written ... It is obviously the product of someone with a very powerful imagination'

(Newbooks Magazine )

'John Connolly has a cult following for his crime novel and can clearly plot twists and turns. He has applied that talent to his own life by producing a very different book... a highly original novel using stories that we all know. But think twice before reading his version of Hansel and Gretel to your kids'

(Times )

"* 'Seldom has a thriller writer been so adept at turning the screw yet further and evoking a sense of awful dread among his landscapes and tormented characters. Colourful but visceral grand guignol, and definitely not to be read at night.' - Maxim Jakubowski, Guardian on The Black Angel * 'Connolly has made a name for himself specialising in darkness, and THE BLACK ANGEL is no exception. Five Star.' - Daily Mirror on The Black Angel * 'Connolly has virtually no match when it comes to chilling his readers.' - Daily Express on The Black Angel * 'There is a precision to the horrors... that make them one of the few sequences to have found anything interesting to say about serial killers since Thomas Harris.' - Independent on The Black Angel" --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

'Once upon a time, there was a boy who lost his mother . . .' As twelve-year-old David takes refuge from his grief in the myths and fairytales so beloved of his dead mother, he finds the real world and the fantasy world begin to blend. That is when bad things start to happen. That is when the Crooked Man comes. And David is violently propelled into a land populated by heroes, wolves and monsters, his quest to find the legendary Book of Lost Things.

John Connolly was born in Dublin in 1968. His debut, EVERY DEAD THING swiftly launched him right into the front rank of thriller writers, and all his subsequent novels have been Sunday Times bestsellers. He is the first non-American writer to win the US Shamus award.